you now know more than zero French 👏

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+1 for this

what’s the point of that? I’m sorry, I just don’t understand - is it so it can reference your transaction history and help with budgeting or something?

financial services … like investments? I’ve heard of people using LLMs to get advice on how to invest - but I’ve also read that this rarely goes well

I have the great pleasure of saying I have no idea what openclaw is - is this the agentic AI that just does a recursive prompt loop so it’s talking to itself to give it “agency”?

If we don’t program it to do something, it won’t.

yes, the only caveat would be that people could hook AI up to things that they shouldn’t and not provide sufficient oversight to ensure it is acting reasonably … but the same could be said of cruise control in a car, for example

I do wonder what scary things a text-prediction program will be capable of that has everyone so worried … it’s as simple as just not using it further. LLMs have no agency or independent intelligence.

The harms and concerns are many, but not related to concerns about its intelligence.

it’s 4chan’s trans community, their board was /lgbt/ and the joke was that there weren’t a lot of lesbian, gay, or bi people, it was mostly trans people, so instead of lgbt it was just “trans, trans, trans and trans” (hence /tttt/ instead of /lgbt/). It started off just as a joke about the over-representation of trans women on the 4chan /lgbt/ board.

see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki//tttt/

yes, there was actually a recent case of someone posting about their DIY orchi in a 4tran community on Reddit - I think they were in Europe.

But regardless, the 4tran community seems to talk about and “support” DIY surgery to an extent other trans communities tend to either not or actively suppress, at least from my experiences in online trans communities. It’s not like the community is delusional about the risks, but there is a respect for people who go through with it, and a tendency within the community to share resources on how to go about DIY surgeries like that.

I’ve also seen trans men express frustration with their situation and inability to go through with a DIY orchi the way trans women would be able to, etc. - again, interactions I’m not seeing as much elsewhere.

In general, 4chan is more “id” and these sorts of topics that would be taboo elsewhere are free to find expression.

not sure, tbh - but I think they keep to separate corners and the freedom to post problematic stuff is probably a major motivation - a /tttt/ or 4tran kind of community isn’t welcome in most online trans spaces (whether Lemmy or Reddit) because the mainstream trans culture (at least online) is hostile to the enbyphobia, the toxicity & criticism of trans subcultures, the excessive and unchecked brainworms, the DIY surgeries, etc. that go are common in these communities.

yeah, I don’t know who thinks /tttt/ isn’t cringe, lol

I tend to think of it more as a kind of black-pill space where people congregate to bond over their shared misery, social alienation, gender dysphoria, etc.

I think their hatred of others is symptomatic of their self-loathing more than anything.

it really does matter, though - the fact that it’s not a choice is an important fact in arguments supporting legislation banning conversion therapy, for example - if it were a choice, conversion therapy would at least be plausible for people who didn’t want to be gay, for example. If it weren’t a choice, legislation banning conversion therapy would have less justification as it would be a valid choice for some people to not be gay and to use therapy to change. Conversion therapy doesn’t work because it’s not a choice, and that makes it a dangerous and pseudo-scientific practice, which justifies banning it.

Christians (esp. fundies) really don’t work with the same concepts as everyone else

for example, homosexuality is now known to be mostly a matter of biology (of course, a repressive environment might lead people to suppress, but I’m doubtful that is relevant to the underlying question of their innate sexual orientation, which remains unchanged)

but for science-denying Christians who are taught that homosexuality is “sin”, they are mostly taught that sexuality is not anything innate or natural but entirely a matter of behavioral choices (similar to how shame about masturbation frames sexuality and sexual desire as wrong and a matter of self control and making “good choices”).

So, in that context something like “I don’t agree with homosexuality” really just means they see homosexual “acts” as wrong, and so they don’t endorse people who indulge in those behaviors; they aren’t really thinking about sexuality in the same way.

no denying that people criticize women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), but there are series of “dear Faith” email posts that collectively seem a bit unlikely in their tone and situation, which is what makes me think it’s more likely they’re fake than real

that said, this particular email seems more plausible than the other one about plagiarism.

yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor

I have heard horror stories about how specific formatting has to be for a thesis or dissertation, though - and often those rules are very specific to a particular university or even department. So it’s also possible for rules like that to be local and not from a universal standard like the APA guide.

it could be an internal organizational title, but it definitely doesn’t sound like an academic position and not a part of a normal email signature either

I don’t know, the line “at this rate, the only original part of this thesis is your name” implies the issue is not just failing to cite sources, but having no original thoughts or contributions - maybe it’s exaggeration for humor’s sake, but I definitely did not read this as simply forgetting to cite sources. Regardless, it’s so flippant and playful it feels like it was written as a joke, maybe even written to make a meme, hence it doesn’t feel like a real email.

Most people chose their name, sometimes choosing a name similar to their real name, sometimes choosing completely different names. The only time I saw someone assigned a name was when their name conflicted with another student’s.

I have never worked in academia, but I’ve spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts … this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student

this can’t be real